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  2. Manifest destiny - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists For other uses, see Manifest Destiny (disambiguation). American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading ...

  3. Crash Course (web series) - Wikipedia

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    Crash Course (sometimes stylized as CrashCourse) is an educational YouTube channel started by John Green and Hank Green (collectively the Green brothers), who became known on YouTube through their Vlogbrothers channel. [2] [3] [4] Crash Course was one of the hundred initial channels funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.

  4. American Progress - Wikipedia

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    American Progress, a painting of profound historical significance, has become a seminal example of American Western Art.Serving as an allegory for manifest destiny and American westward expansion, this 11.50 by 15.75 inches (29.2 cm × 40.0 cm) masterpiece was commissioned in 1872 by George Crofutt, a publisher of American Western travel guides and has since been frequently reproduced.

  5. List of Manifest episodes - Wikipedia

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    Manifest is an American supernatural drama television series created by Jeff Rake that premiered on September 24, 2018, on NBC. [1] [2] It centers on the passengers and crew of a commercial airliner who suddenly reappear after being presumed dead for five and a half years.

  6. History of the United States (1849–1865) - Wikipedia

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    President Millard Fillmore hoped to continue Manifest Destiny, and with this aim he sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in the hopes of arranging trade agreements in 1853. A railroad to the Pacific was planned, and Senator Stephen A. Douglas wanted the transcontinental railway to pass through Chicago .

  7. Elon Musk's Crash Course - Wikipedia

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    Elon Musk's Crash Course is a 2022 New York Times–FX documentary film directed and produced by Emma Schwartz with reporting by Cade Metz and Neal Boudette. [1] The documentary explores the promises made by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in regards to self-driving cars and contrasts that with the fatal accidents that have occurred using the technology.

  8. Texas annexation - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, Manifest Destiny enthusiasm in the north placed politicians under pressure to admit Texas immediately to the Union. [ 137 ] Constitutional objections were raised in House debates as to whether both houses of Congress could constitutionally authorize admission of territories, rather than states.

  9. Manifest Destiny (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Manifest Destiny (Brand X album), 1997; Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album) "Manifest Destiny/Sorority Tears", a 2006 song by Guster "Manifest Destiny" (Jamiroquai song), 1994; Manifest Destiny, a 1974 musical comedy written by Filipino politician Raul Manglapus "Manifest Destiny", a 1988 song by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles from the album 4 of a Kind